Wednesday, 14 June 2017

Wheatfield (June)

Visiting
Van Gogh, Tyson Yunkaporta gets things right, like the rest of us. (Guardian,
13 June 2017) His nature writing matches Vincent’s, even down to connections
between weather, crops, and wildlife. People will always have to work the land
in order to live and survive. The Europeans have been agriculturalists for
millennia. But Tyson gets things wrong, like the rest of us. The seasons of
Europe predate the Industrial Revolution even if, like the seasons of eastern
Australia, they’re now conditioned by industrialisation. Vincent made many
images of sowing. The yam is a staple, which is why Vincent painted
wheatfields.